kernel/linux.git/tools/build, branch v6.19.11

tools build: Fix the common set of features test wrt libopenssl

2025-12-28T04:26:44+00:00

The recent introduction of the libopenssl feature test forgot to add the -lssl to the test-all.o target, which made it always fail, fix it. Noticed by looking at this file after building: $ cat /tmp/build/perf-tools/feature/test-all.make.output /usr/bin/ld: /tmp/ccBhO8WH.ltrans0.ltrans.o: in function `main': /home/acme/git/perf-tools/tools/build/feature/test-libopenssl.c:6:(.text.startup+0x2ed): undefined reference to `OPENSSL_init_ssl' collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status $ It was added only to the individual ssl test, that works: $ cat /tmp/build/perf-tools/feature/test-libopenssl.make.output $ ldd /tmp/build/perf-tools/feature/test-libopenssl.bin | grep ssl libssl.so.3 => /usr/lib64/libssl.so.3 (0x00007fb81eda8000) $ Fixes: 7678523109d1d9ee ("tools/build: Add a feature test for libopenssl") Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim

tools/build: Add a feature test for libopenssl

2025-12-17T13:44:24+00:00

It's used by bpftool and the kernel build. Let's add a feature test so that perf can decide what to do based on the availability. Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim

Merge tag 'perf-tools-for-v6.19-2025-12-06' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/perf/perf-tools

2025-12-07T15:07:02+00:00

Pull perf tools updates from Namhyung Kim: "Perf event/metric description: Unify all event and metric descriptions in JSON format. Now event parsing and handling is greatly simplified by that. From users point of view, perf list will provide richer information about hardware events like the following. $ perf list hw List of pre-defined events (to be used in -e or -M): legacy hardware: branch-instructions [Retired branch instructions [This event is an alias of branches]. Unit: cpu] branch-misses [Mispredicted branch instructions. Unit: cpu] branches [Retired branch instructions [This event is an alias of branch-instructions]. Unit: cpu] bus-cycles [Bus cycles,which can be different from total cycles. Unit: cpu] cache-misses [Cache misses. Usually this indicates Last Level Cache misses; this is intended to be used in conjunction with the PERF_COUNT_HW_CACHE_REFERENCES event to calculate cache miss rates. Unit: cpu] cache-references [Cache accesses. Usually this indicates Last Level Cache accesses but this may vary depending on your CPU. This may include prefetches and coherency messages; again this depends on the design of your CPU. Unit: cpu] cpu-cycles [Total cycles. Be wary of what happens during CPU frequency scaling [This event is an alias of cycles]. Unit: cpu] cycles [Total cycles. Be wary of what happens during CPU frequency scaling [This event is an alias of cpu-cycles]. Unit: cpu] instructions [Retired instructions. Be careful,these can be affected by various issues,most notably hardware interrupt counts. Unit: cpu] ref-cycles [Total cycles; not affected by CPU frequency scaling. Unit: cpu] But most notable changes would be in the perf stat. On the right side, the default metrics are better named and aligned. :) $ perf stat -- perf test -w noploop Performance counter stats for 'perf test -w noploop': 11 context-switches # 10.8 cs/sec cs_per_second 0 cpu-migrations # 0.0 migrations/sec migrations_per_second 3,612 page-faults # 3532.5 faults/sec page_faults_per_second 1,022.51 msec task-clock # 1.0 CPUs CPUs_utilized 110,466 branch-misses # 0.0 % branch_miss_rate (88.66%) 6,934,452,104 branches # 6781.8 M/sec branch_frequency (88.66%) 4,657,032,590 cpu-cycles # 4.6 GHz cycles_frequency (88.65%) 27,755,874,218 instructions # 6.0 instructions insn_per_cycle (89.03%) TopdownL1 # 0.3 % tma_backend_bound # 9.3 % tma_bad_speculation (89.05%) # 9.7 % tma_frontend_bound (77.86%) # 80.7 % tma_retiring (88.81%) 1.025318171 seconds time elapsed 1.013248000 seconds user 0.012014000 seconds sys Deferred unwinding support: With the kernel support (commit c69993ecdd4d: "perf: Support deferred user unwind"), perf can use deferred callchains for userspace stack trace with frame pointers like below: $ perf record --call-graph fp,defer ... This will be transparent to users when it comes to other commands like perf report and perf script. They will merge the deferred callchains to the previous samples as if they were collected together. ARM SPE updates - Extensive enhancements to support various kinds of memory operations including GCS, MTE allocation tags, memcpy/memset, register access, and SIMD operations. - Add inverted data source filter (inv_data_src_filter) support to exclude certain data sources. - Improve documentation. Vendor event updates: - Intel: Updated event files for Sierra Forest, Panther Lake, Meteor Lake, Lunar Lake, Granite Rapids, and others. - Arm64: Added metrics for i.MX94 DDR PMU and Cortex-A720AE definitions. - RISC-V: Added JSON support for T-HEAD C920V2. Misc: - Improve pointer tracking in data type profiling. It'd give better output when the variable is using container_of() to convert type. - Annotation support for perf c2c report in TUI. Press 'a' key to enter annotation view from cacheline browser window. This will show which instruction is causing the cacheline contention. - Lots of fixes and test coverage improvements!" * tag 'perf-tools-for-v6.19-2025-12-06' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/perf/perf-tools: (214 commits) libperf: Use 'extern' in LIBPERF_API visibility macro perf stat: Improve handling of termination by signal perf tests stat: Add test for error for an offline CPU perf stat: When no events, don't report an error if there is none perf tests stat: Add "--null" coverage perf cpumap: Add "any" CPU handling to cpu_map__snprint_mask libperf cpumap: Fix perf_cpu_map__max for an empty/NULL map perf stat: Allow no events to open if this is a "--null" run perf test kvm: Add some basic perf kvm test coverage perf tests evlist: Add basic evlist test perf tests script dlfilter: Add a dlfilter test perf tests kallsyms: Add basic kallsyms test perf tests timechart: Add a perf timechart test perf tests top: Add basic perf top coverage test perf tests buildid: Add purge and remove testing perf tests c2c: Add a basic c2c perf c2c: Clean up some defensive gets and make asan clean perf jitdump: Fix missed dso__put perf mem-events: Don't leak online CPU map perf hist: In init, ensure mem_info is put on error paths ...

Merge tag 'objtool-core-2025-12-01' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2025-12-02T04:18:59+00:00

Pull objtool updates from Ingo Molnar: - klp-build livepatch module generation (Josh Poimboeuf) Introduce new objtool features and a klp-build script to generate livepatch modules using a source .patch as input. This builds on concepts from the longstanding out-of-tree kpatch project which began in 2012 and has been used for many years to generate livepatch modules for production kernels. However, this is a complete rewrite which incorporates hard-earned lessons from 12+ years of maintaining kpatch. Key improvements compared to kpatch-build: - Integrated with objtool: Leverages objtool's existing control-flow graph analysis to help detect changed functions. - Works on vmlinux.o: Supports late-linked objects, making it compatible with LTO, IBT, and similar. - Simplified code base: ~3k fewer lines of code. - Upstream: No more out-of-tree #ifdef hacks, far less cruft. - Cleaner internals: Vastly simplified logic for symbol/section/reloc inclusion and special section extraction. - Robust __LINE__ macro handling: Avoids false positive binary diffs caused by the __LINE__ macro by introducing a fix-patch-lines script which injects #line directives into the source .patch to preserve the original line numbers at compile time. - Disassemble code with libopcodes instead of running objdump (Alexandre Chartre) - Disassemble support (-d option to objtool) by Alexandre Chartre, which supports the decoding of various Linux kernel code generation specials such as alternatives: 17ef: sched_balance_find_dst_group+0x62f mov 0x34(%r9),%edx 17f3: sched_balance_find_dst_group+0x633 | | X86_FEATURE_POPCNT 17f3: sched_balance_find_dst_group+0x633 | call 0x17f8 <__sw_hweight64> | popcnt %rdi,%rax 17f8: sched_balance_find_dst_group+0x638 cmp %eax,%edx ... jump table alternatives: 1895: sched_use_asym_prio+0x5 test $0x8,%ch 1898: sched_use_asym_prio+0x8 je 0x18a9 189a: sched_use_asym_prio+0xa | | JUMP 189a: sched_use_asym_prio+0xa | jmp 0x18ae | nop2 189c: sched_use_asym_prio+0xc mov $0x1,%eax 18a1: sched_use_asym_prio+0x11 and $0x80,%ecx ... exception table alternatives: native_read_msr: 5b80: native_read_msr+0x0 mov %edi,%ecx 5b82: native_read_msr+0x2 | | EXCEPTION 5b82: native_read_msr+0x2 | rdmsr | resume at 0x5b84 5b84: native_read_msr+0x4 shl $0x20,%rdx .... x86 feature flag decoding (also see the X86_FEATURE_POPCNT example in sched_balance_find_dst_group() above): 2faaf: start_thread_common.constprop.0+0x1f jne 0x2fba4 2fab5: start_thread_common.constprop.0+0x25 | | X86_FEATURE_ALWAYS | X86_BUG_NULL_SEG 2fab5: start_thread_common.constprop.0+0x25 | jmp 0x2faba <.altinstr_aux+0x2f4> | jmp 0x4b0 | nop5 2faba: start_thread_common.constprop.0+0x2a mov $0x2b,%eax ... NOP sequence shortening: 1048e2: snapshot_write_finalize+0xc2 je 0x104917 1048e4: snapshot_write_finalize+0xc4 nop6 1048ea: snapshot_write_finalize+0xca nop11 1048f5: snapshot_write_finalize+0xd5 nop11 104900: snapshot_write_finalize+0xe0 mov %rax,%rcx 104903: snapshot_write_finalize+0xe3 mov 0x10(%rdx),%rax ... and much more. - Function validation tracing support (Alexandre Chartre) - Various -ffunction-sections fixes (Josh Poimboeuf) - Clang AutoFDO (Automated Feedback-Directed Optimizations) support (Josh Poimboeuf) - Misc fixes and cleanups (Borislav Petkov, Chen Ni, Dylan Hatch, Ingo Molnar, John Wang, Josh Poimboeuf, Pankaj Raghav, Peter Zijlstra, Thorsten Blum) * tag 'objtool-core-2025-12-01' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (129 commits) objtool: Fix segfault on unknown alternatives objtool: Build with disassembly can fail when including bdf.h objtool: Trim trailing NOPs in alternative objtool: Add wide output for disassembly objtool: Compact output for alternatives with one instruction objtool: Improve naming of group alternatives objtool: Add Function to get the name of a CPU feature objtool: Provide access to feature and flags of group alternatives objtool: Fix address references in alternatives objtool: Disassemble jump table alternatives objtool: Disassemble exception table alternatives objtool: Print addresses with alternative instructions objtool: Disassemble group alternatives objtool: Print headers for alternatives objtool: Preserve alternatives order objtool: Add the --disas= action objtool: Do not validate IBT for .return_sites and .call_sites objtool: Improve tracing of alternative instructions objtool: Add functions to better name alternatives objtool: Identify the different types of alternatives ...

tool build: Remove annoying newline in build output

2025-11-21T14:30:07+00:00

Remove the newline which is printed during feature discovery when nothing else is printed. Signed-off-by: Alexandre Chartre Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251121095340.464045-5-alexandre.chartre@oracle.com

tool build: Remove __get_cpuid feature test

2025-11-14T07:03:11+00:00

This feature test is no longer used so remove. The function tested by the feature test is used in: tools/power/x86/x86_energy_perf_policy/x86_energy_perf_policy.c however, the Makefile just assumes the presence of the function and doesn't perform a build feature test for it. Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers Reviewed-by: James Clark Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim

perf build: Don't fail fast path feature detection when binutils-devel is not available

2025-11-13T20:16:34+00:00

This is one more remnant of the BUILD_NONDISTRO series to make building with binutils-devel opt-in due to license incompatibility. In this case just the references at link time were still in place, which make building the test-all.bin file fail, which wasn't detected before probably because the last test was done with binutils-devel available, doh. Now: $ rpm -q binutils-devel package binutils-devel is not installed $ file /tmp/build/perf-tools/feature/test-all.bin /tmp/build/perf-tools/feature/test-all.bin: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, interpreter /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2, BuildID[sha1]=4b5388a346b51f1b993f0b0dbd49f4570769b03c, for GNU/Linux 3.2.0, not stripped $ Fixes: 970ae86307718c34 ("perf build: The bfd features are opt-in, stop testing for them by default") Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: James Clark Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Namhyung Kim Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf build: Fix perf build issues with fixdep

2025-10-23T07:53:49+00:00

Commit a808a2b35f66 ("tools build: Fix fixdep dependencies") broke the perf build ("make -C tools/perf") by introducing two inadvertent conflicts: 1) tools/build/Makefile includes tools/build/Makefile.include, which defines a phony 'fixdep' target. This conflicts with the $(FIXDEP) file target in tools/build/Makefile when OUTPUT is empty, causing make to report duplicate recipes for the same target. 2) The FIXDEP variable in tools/build/Makefile conflicts with the previously existing one in tools/perf/Makefile.perf. Remove the unnecessary include of tools/build/Makefile.include from tools/build/Makefile, and rename the FIXDEP variable in tools/perf/Makefile.perf to FIXDEP_BUILT. Fixes: a808a2b35f66 ("tools build: Fix fixdep dependencies") Reported-by: Thorsten Leemhuis Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Tested-by: Thorsten Leemhuis Link: https://patch.msgid.link/8881bc3321bd9fa58802e4f36286eefe3667806b.1760992391.git.jpoimboe@kernel.org

tools build: Fix fixdep dependencies

2025-10-14T21:45:20+00:00

The tools version of fixdep has broken dependencies. It doesn't get rebuilt if the host compiler or headers change. Build fixdep with the tools kbuild infrastructure, so fixdep runs on itself. Due to the recursive dependency, its dependency file is incomplete the very first time it gets built. In that case build it a second time to achieve fixdep inception. Reported-by: Arthur Marsh Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf

perf build: Correct CROSS_ARCH for clang

2025-10-06T19:49:25+00:00

Clang's -dumpmachine outputs "aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu", which does not match the MultiArch convention. This prevents the build system from detecting installed packages. Fix by stripping the trailing '-' from CROSS_COMPILE when setting CROSS_ARCH. Signed-off-by: Leo Yan Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251006-perf_build_android_ndk-v3-3-4305590795b2@arm.com Cc: Palmer Dabbelt Cc: Albert Ou Cc: Alexandre Ghiti Cc: Nick Desaulniers Cc: Justin Stitt Cc: Bill Wendling Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Nathan Chancellor Cc: James Clark Cc: linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org Cc: llvm@lists.linux.dev Cc: Paul Walmsley Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo